How Can I Be Lonely?

One is walking with me over life's uneven way

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [One is walking with me over life's uneven way]
Published in 22 hymnals

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: One is walking with me over life's uneven way
Title: How Can I Be Lonely?
Author: Haldor Lillenas
Language: English
Refrain First Line: How can I be lonely
Publication Date: 1928
Copyright: Public Domain

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Complete Christian Hymnal #d146

Free Will Baptist Hymn Book #d247

Glad Praise #d117

Glorious Gospel Hymns #d435

Majestic Hymns #d179

Praise and Worship #155

Praise and Worship #155

Spiritual Songs and Hymns, for Use in All Gospel Services #d441

Standardbearer Hymns #d84

Assembly Songs #51

Devotion and Praise #200

Full Gospel Songs #18

Hymns of the Christian Life #325

Old Fashioned Revival Hour Songs #22

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Sacred Selections for the Church #489

Songs from the Haven of Rest #62

Songs of Praise #66

Audio

Songs of the Sanctuary #51

Tabernacle Hymns #61

Great Gospel Songs #18

Hymns of the Comforter #67

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Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) #92

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